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If anyone has a larger/better quality version of this photo, please E-mail it or the link to matt@logan.com

on 2004-May-18 02:00:22 Anonymous coward said

TM
HOLY @!%$*&

on 2004-Sep-04 22:57:12 Anonymous coward said

Dan
This can't be real?

on 2004-Sep-18 06:12:17 Anonymous coward said

Foxfire
I think this may be a 1950's underwater nuclear test. Looks like an old WW II vintage flat-top carrier floating next to it. They used to put ships at various distances from "ground zero" to see the effects of underwater nuclear blasts on ships.

on 2004-Sep-28 10:17:35 Anonymous coward said

Flying Cabbage
That's no WW2 Carrier. It's got the angled-deck, and from the layout, I'd say it's from the Constellation / Kitty Hawk Class, which weren't retired until the end of the Cold War.

on 2004-Oct-21 08:15:54 Anonymous coward said

LTF
Actually this is just a normal test that we conduct on all our ships. No big deal.

on 2004-Oct-21 09:14:33 Anonymous coward said

Tom
LTF is correct. It is called a shock test and all ships go through one to test for hull integrity and missile (things flying around loose) hazard.

on 2005-Jan-31 21:47:56 Anonymous coward said

jhon
I think it is a picture frome the "Baker" nuclear tests in Bekni
(spelling?) atoll

on 2005-Feb-11 16:04:59 Anonymous coward said

Nik
Move along people, there's nothing to see OMG! Would you look at that!

on 2005-Jul-20 01:05:46 Anonymous coward said

Vic
See I told you that they served beans on Subs.

on 2005-Jul-28 20:04:28 Anonymous coward said

kaptn
HA HA, Ya missed!

on 2005-Aug-30 09:46:54 Anonymous coward said

NAVCAD
Simple Shock test. As said before ALL ships go through this. Still it's pretty intense when you're onboard.

on 2005-Sep-28 12:25:13 Anonymous coward said

FFR-31_Driver
Captain:"Cutting it a little bit close, aren't we Gridley?!"

on 2005-Dec-21 15:46:28 Anonymous coward said

Guest
Yeah, that's just our standard "Drop a nuke fifty feet from the ship and see what happens" test. If the ship sinks, we don't use it anymore. If it still floats, it passes the test.

on 2006-Jan-23 12:58:04 Anonymous coward said

Sean
So that what happens when you put cans in a pressurized enviorment.

on 2006-Mar-03 12:25:12 Anonymous coward said

Ragav
Captain:I Told Ya To Fire At The Goddamn Enemy Ya Numbskull Not 50 feet waya from us

on 2006-Mar-23 23:05:13 Anonymous coward said

eman_woods
a-6. ha ha i sunk your carier...no wait

on 2006-May-02 07:22:33 Anonymous coward said

Vander Marquall
Some-one didn't get the Memo

on 2006-May-02 07:24:06 Anonymous coward said

Vander Marquall
Some-one didn't get the Memo

on 2006-May-22 00:54:59 Anonymous coward said

A2... miss A3.. miss B4...miss
A2... miss A3.. miss B4...miss

on 2006-Jun-13 14:49:16 Anonymous coward said

Me
It's not a nuke folks. Geez...

on 2006-Jun-28 16:19:32 Anonymous coward said

duh
I don't think anyone on the ship is really splitting hairs over what type of bomb it was. Bottom line, it was BIG and it was CLOSE!!!

on 2006-Aug-03 02:14:26 Anonymous coward said

Spity
Excuse me Sir - about that underwater volcano somewhere around here - I think we found it!

on 2006-Aug-11 17:49:32 Anonymous coward said

Squiff
"BANZAI....Oh Bugger....Missed"

on 2007-Feb-16 02:43:38 Anonymous coward said

havicks
... and off to your right folks is... OMG!!!!

on 2007-Feb-17 13:47:05 Anonymous coward said

Chamberflyer
This is called Shock Trials for the USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 (Nimitz Class). Not all ships go through this, normally one ship of the class. The Roosevelt was the first of the Nimitz class to be built modularly and needed to be tested for it's ability to handle near misses.

on 2007-Feb-17 15:53:40 Anonymous coward said

Chamberflyer
This looks like it was test 3 of 4. The charge was suspended 100 ft down and was the equivalent of 20,000 lbs of dynamite. And yes it was quite an experience.

MOTO
I think it is the USS AMERICA. Check out www.navsource.org/archives/02/66.htm
USS AMERICA was..." Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, off VA coast, on 14 May 2005, after 25 days of tests consisting of underwater and surface simulated attacks on the ship."

on 2008-Sep-14 04:47:23 Anonymous coward said

Copperbelt Jack
US Navy - 1
Fish - 0

on 2010-Feb-25 08:49:33 Anonymous coward said

Adreno
Lol this is definately no underwaternuke, in those experiments the ships were either thrown in the air a good few hunred feet or partially vaporized.. i'd say this is either a custom bomb or an incredibly pumped up seamine or something like that

on 2010-Jun-18 18:53:43 Anonymous coward said

Homeslice.
It's a routine shock test. They moor the ship a prescribed distance from a barge heavily laden with high explosives and light it off. Everyone aboard is at Battle Stations, and you grip something solid while standing on the balls of your feet with all of your joints flexed.

on 2011-Dec-07 12:10:41 DrTracy said

Fred, that was one of our ships! Really Bob? Yeah, Fred!! Well, Bob, I guess I'm due for another of the boss's famous chewing outs.

on 2012-Apr-18 09:26:44 DrTracy said

I've always heard that a Blowfish fart was awesome, but this is waaaay over the top!!!